Combination athletic garment

ABSTRACT

An athletic garment including a pair of stretchable units forming leg portions terminating in a hip portion which terminates in a waist portion together with a releasable closable open ended pouch secured to the garment and adapted to receive a protector cup.

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The most inconvenient and time consuming task for a hockey player indressing to play hockey has always been the installation of the presentday equipment referred to above. The player must first put on the bottomhalf of a suit of long underwear and then put on an athletic supporterwith a protective cup inside it. Next the player must put on a garterbelt for the purpose of holding up hockey stockings, and he then puts onsome type of thigh high hockey stockings and attaches the garter belt tothe top of the stockings. With the use of the present invention, thehockey player inserts his legs into the foot straps and pulls the garmetto waist height. In this one operation, the player has taken care of allof the items and functions referred to.

In the event it becomes necessary for a player to urinate while inuniform, the advantage of this invention is obvious over present daygear.

Under present conventional hockey dress, garter belts frequently breakand hockey stockings come down thereby resulting in a condition that isboth unsightly and unsafe, for a slack stocking can catch on a skate orbroken stick and cause serious injury. The present invention eliminatesslack stockings and broken garter belts and also holds the protectivecup in its proper position far more securely than a conventionalathletic supporter. The danger of injuries due to the protective cupslipping out of position is also done away with.

In the drawings forming part of this application:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a combination athletic garment embodyingthe invention and shown in extended condition as on a wearer of thesame.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view on the line 2-2 of FIG. 1.

FIG. 3 is a view on the line 2-2 of FIG. 2 with only a fragment of thegarment being shown and a portion of the pouch being broken away.

Referring to the drawings in detail, the combination athletic garment Aincludes the two leg garment body formed of two knit units 11 ofstretchable material. The body 10 also includes the left and right legportions l2 and 14 terminating in the hip portion 16 which terminates inthe waist portion 18. The waist portion being stretchable hugs the hipsof the user and holds the garment A in proper position. Suspenders, astring tie or a belt may also be used to hold up the garment in properwearing position.

The body 10 is knit and integrally formed with a narrowing at thedesired areas to present a properly proportioned contoured unit whichconforms to the normal configuration of the wearer.

The two knit units l1 are joined at the front seam 20 and with thesimilar rear seam 22. The leg portions 12 and 14 extend down to theankles of the wearer, and secured to the lower end of the leg portion 12is the loop strap 24. Similarly secured to the lower end of the legportion 14 is the loop strap 26. The loop straps engage under the instepof the feet as illustrated in FIG. 1.

The numeral 28 designates a pouch formed of two parts 30 and 32 joinedat the rear sewn central seam 34 and the front central sewn seam 36. Thepouch parts 30 and 32 converge to a generally pointed lower end. Thepouch 28 has a closeable substantially flat upper end which isreleasably closed by the conventional engageable gripping strips 38 and40, the strip 38 secured to the inner surface of the upper portion ofthe pouch and the strip 40 secured to the inner surface of the upperportion of the pouch. The pouch is secured to the front of the hipportion 16 in the area of the juncture with the leg portions by means ofthe sewn tack points 42, 44 and 46.

Further provided is the conventional protector cup C of a size andconfiguration whereby it tits within the pouch 28 when the pouch isclosed as described above. The garment A is put on by the user by simplyinserting a leg into each of the leg portions and pulling upwardly onthe garment until the waist portion is over the hips and at the waist ofthe user with the loops 26 and 24 in engagement with the arches of thefeet. The garment A for the hockey player replaces long underwear, longhockey stockings, a separate protective cup, a conventional athleticsupporter, shorts, and a garter belt.

What is claimed is:

1. An athletic garment comprising in combination:

a. a pair of stretchable units forming leg portions extending from b.ankle portions to a juncture thereof terminating in c. a hip portionterminating in d. a waist portion,

e. a protector cup,

f. an open-ended pouch member secured to said garment at the junction ofthe leg portions and adapted to receive said protector cup, and

g. means for releasably closing said pouch to maintain said protectorcup therein h. a loop strap connected to the lower end of each of

1. An athletic garment comprising in combination: a. a pair ofstretchable units forming leg portions extending from b. ankle portionsto a juncture thereof terminating in c. a hip portion terminating in d.a waist portion, e. a protector cup, f. an open-ended pouch membersecured to said garment at the junction of the leg portions and adaptedto receive said protector cup, and g. means for releasably closing saidpouch to maintain said protector cup therein h. a loop strap connectedto the lower end of each of said leg portions.